A bank clerk and a police officer in Kenya, and a tax inspector in Bosnia have won awards as anti-corruption whistle blowers, the corruption watchdog Transparency International announced yesterday.
David Munyakei, a clerk at Kenya's central bank, and Constable Naftali Lagat won the group's 2004 Integrity Awards for shedding light on the Goldenberg scandal, one of the biggest in Kenyan history.
Milica Bisic, former head of the tax department in the Bosnian Serb part of Bosnia, Republika Srpska was also recognized.
Posthumous awards were given to three people whose bravery cost them their lives: Hasan Balikci, a Turkish electrical engineer slain because of his efforts to root out corruption in the state electricity company; Satyendra Kumar Dubey, an Indian who was killed after making a complaint about corruption in the road-building project he was overseeing; Manik Chandra Saha, a Bangladeshi journalist. AFP